April 2011
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The Pirate Party’s solution for the global job... →
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Steve Coll in the New Yorker
Steve Coll wrote the book Ghost Wars and is the president of New America Foundation
March 31, 2011
LIBYA: DON’T ARM THE REBELS
Posted by Steve Coll
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There is time to try to force out Qaddafi by enforcing the no-fly, no-drive zone; enforcing sanctions; and increasing the political pressure on his regime. If it is really...
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March 2011
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WatchVia: Reuters
Mohamed El -Erian Eygptian Fund Manager discusses the events in Egypt and Middle East
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“At a Univision town hall, President Obama was asked by moderator Jorge Ramos if...”
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“Income tax rates are now lower than they were under Ronald Reagan and far lower...”
– Andrew Sullivan (via pantslessprogressive)
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US wireless market is balkanized and byzantine. →
Via: ASYMCO
Analysis of the AT&T T Mobile merger and the sorry state of the American Wireless market. We suffer because laissez-faire market philosophies trump common sense.
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“I have two grandchildren: Maggie is 11; Robert is 9. I am convinced that if we...”
– Newt Gingrich, speaking at Cornerstone Church. I had some thoughts on the speech here, but should have been clearer on one point: Newt, you have to pick one! It’s either radical Islam and Sharia law or a Bacchanalia of godlessness. It cannot be both. (via ilyagerner)
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Iranian hackers obtain fraudulent HTTPS... →
Big questions about Internet Security from EFF. (Electronic Freedom Foundation)
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Why is US withholding old documents on covert ops... →
mikehudack:
nickturse:
“[A]s CIA covert action roars back in places like Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Yemen, a detailed, public examination of such major past operations would provide both citizens and policymakers with needed perspective and caution,” Stephen Weissman trenchantly observes in a new piece in the Christian Science Monitor. So why he asks, are past covert ops being covered up...
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A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey... →
Worthy recommendation for Sunday study - David Harvey lays out the thesis for his book A Brief History of Neoliberalism.
[Video]
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Mark Blyth: The Black Swan of Cairo →
Blyth a political economist riffs on current events and the unpredictable nature of complex systems, Egypt and the Middle East, the banking crisis, the sovereign debit crisis, earthquakes, tsunamis and nuclear disasters.
Blyth has a way of explaining the obvious when it is hidden by “fake” common sense. There is a reason we keep getting caught with our “pants down”...
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"How to be a Conservative-Liberal-Socialist" →
From Leszek Kolakowski, Modernity on Endless Trial (1990)
A good read, I think Professor Kolakowski has a winner here.
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Protest march against coalition cuts expected to... →
Guardian.UK
Police braced for high numbers in London with 800 coaches and at least 10 trains chartered from around the country
More than a quarter of a million protesters against public sector cuts are expected to flood central London today in the biggest political demonstration for nearly a decade.
Police sources, normally cautious about estimating numbers, said last night they were...
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Portugal
I am feeling nostalgic for Portugal so I am posting photos from my 2008 stay visiting family.
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Abu Dhabi Guggenheim Faces Protest →
NY Times:
A group of more than 130 artists, including many prominent figures in the Middle Eastern art world, says it will boycott the $800 million Guggenheim museum being built in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, unless conditions for the foreign laborers at the site are improved.
The new Guggenheim, designed by Frank Gehry, is one of the highest-profile construction...
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“The greatest lie of capitalism is perhaps its naturalisation – the idea that it...”
– Zizek (via mxmlsm)
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